In other words, the data must show inflation is more than just a bad rumor.

Look, maybe I can scotch some of the worst rumors.

I was optimistically thinking that maybe the whole thing was just a bad rumor.

Only the second year of his term, and already the faceless mass was beginning to hear bad rumors!

"But people are spreading bad rumors about him and I think his health has suffered."

Before we left I heard bad rumors about the crews on the smuggling ships.

He tries to act carefully to avoid any bad rumors.

Too bad the rumor may not have been true.

She keeps Godfrey at arm's length because she's heard bad rumors about him.

"He had heard bad rumors about me, how I was unhappy."